>> Which empress??? > > You mean there's more than one? I didn't know any.
> >> Yesterday I taught 2 classes of 19-year olds at NYU, invited by a >> poet-friend who teaches a History of Culture course which touches >> on the >> "mystification as a literary vehicle". > > Interesting. When I was in graduate school it was de-mystification. > Still, that was a long time ago... I don't think anything has changed really, unless positivism has abated a bit..... > >> So I was asked to do a presentation >> on Sautscheckerei, my humble self in the context of literary >> mystification >> from Descartes, Chatterton, Macpherson, Merimee, Musin-Pushkin and >> other >> fine individuals.... >> Dan Swenberg (of the Rebel Baroque Orchestra et al.) helped out >> with a dozen >> and a half Sarmaticae et Ruthenicae on the Renaissance lute. I >> played the >> sautscheckerei myself in the second half- baroque lute settings of and >> variations on Ukrainian songs, with some originals interspersed, nach >> Haydnisches Manier, naturlich, as a musical equivalent of Merimee's >> GUZLA. >> The picaresque aspect of the event also was certainly useful. > > Very impressive! Lot of fun indeed. > >> But before >> Sting came along we would drawn blank stares. These kids were >> genuinely >> interested. > > Because you play "that thing that Sting plays." Ho! Ho! Just > kidding. Seriously, we're all "mystified" by Sting's success. I wasn't, for one. He is consummate musician (even if he gets raspy), and so is Karamazov. The reward for their work was merited, absolutely. RT To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
